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HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ^cvrcJi /dP/<P 

Admission. — Candidates for admission are examined by the President, Professors, and Tutors. No one — 4 

is admitted to examination, unless he have a good moral character, certified in writing by his preceptor, or 
some other suitable person. To be received to the freshman class, the candidate must be thoroughly acquaint- 
ed with the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, including prosody ; be able properly to construe and 
parse any portion of the following books, viz. Oalzel's Collectanea Grssca Minora, the Greek Testament, Virgil, 
Sallust, and Cicero's Select Orations, and to translate English into Latin correctly ; — he must be well versed in 
Ancient and Modern Geography ; the fundamental rules ot Arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, propor- 
tion, simple and compound, single and double fellowship, alligation medial and alternate, and Algebra, to the 
end of simple equations, comprehending also the doctrine of roots and powers, arithmetical and geometri- 
cal progression.* Adam's Latin Grammar, the Gloucester Greek Grammar, and Cummings* Geography are 
used in the examination for admission. J 

The usual time of examination for the freshman class is the Friday next after Commencement. Those, 
who are necessarily prevented from offering themselves at that time, may be examined at the beginning of the 
first term. If any one be admitted after the first Friday of October, he will be charged for advanced standing. 

Persons may be admitted to advanced standing at any part of the college course, except that no one can 
be admitted to the senior class after the first Wednesday of December. Every one admitted to advanced 
standing, in addition to the requisites for the freshman class, must appear on examination to be well versed in 
the studies pursued by the class into which the candidate desires to enter. He must also pay into the college 

treasury a sum not under sixty dollars, nor exceeding one hundred, for each year's advancement, and a pro- j 

portional sum for any part of a year. Any scholar, however, who has a regular dismission from another Col- 
lege, may be admitted to the standing, for which, on examination, he is found qualified, without any pecunia- 
ry consideration. 

Before the matriculation of any one accepted on examination, a bond is to be given in his behalf in the 
sum of four hundred dollars, for the payment of College dues, with two satisfactory sureties, one to be an in- 
habitant of the State. 

Commencement, when the degrees are given, is on the last Wednesday of August.There are three Terms, 
during which the members of the University must be present. The first or Fall term, from the first to the second 
vacation ; the second or Spring term, from the second to the third vacation ; the third or Summer term, from 
the third vacation to commencement — There are three Vacations ; the first, from commencement, four 
weeks and two days; the second, from the fourth Friday in December, seven weeks; the third, from the 
third Friday in May, two weeks ; — the senior sophisters are allowed to be absent from the seventh Tuesday be- 
fore commencement. 

The Course of Instruction and Study for undergraduates, not admitted to advanced standing, com- 
prises four years. The following are the principal authors and studies assigned to the several classes. The 
proportion of time devoted to each book or exercise may be nearly ascertained by the annexed table. 



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FRESHMEN sy/iy ' J, 

1. Collectanea Grseca Majora. Dalzell. 2 vols. 8vo. A^- / A ^T^- /v* ■ 2- ft- 4*0 
% Titus Livius, libri v. priores, 12mo. . in } ,-,,„ V-~ * 

^ H. GrothVDe Ventai,r el.gr.mis Christian*. l*mo. jM JW^ ^, ^^ */^w Vf 

6. Excerpta Latina. Wells, Boston 8vo. N/ ^^J^^spyJ^ ^ <W< ^/«^ ~- ^+ V '^^ 
6. Algebra and Geometry. ^^^^.fyetX^A «f 0j^^^ -jLsX^A *~ ***> ~ ^ 

7 Ancient History and Chronology. MM-^ <^~ j 

8. Walker's Rhetorical Grammar. y 

9*. English Grammar. / 

10. Adam's Roman Antiquities. y 

Exercises in reading, translation, and declamation^ ) ^ 

SOPHOMORES. }^s ^ 



Continued. 7^^^ <Y^ / i A . l,t- J ™- &. 



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5. Continued 



V 11' SXtTrto-rnetry and its action to heights and distances, and Navigation 
A 13*. Blair's Lectures on Rhetorick. 2 ^/Tbl. £^ ^fr 

14. Modern History and Chronology. UioU^- ****** *- 

15. Hedge's Elements of Logick. 12™». ^ ^ / %J 
16 Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. 3 vols 8vo. f T 
Exerdses in declamation and English composition once a fortnight. 



JUNIOR SOPHISTERS. 

1. Continued and finished. 

16. Continued and finished. 

17. Iliad, Homer, Mattaire's ed. four or five bopk* ,_ . B 3 volg> 32mo> 

18 Juvenal and Persius expurg ; or equivalent part ot lacitus. w ens j, 

19 Paley's Evidences of Christianity. 8vo * J 

20 Willard's Hebrew Grammar. Cambridge, 1817. bv0 - 

il. No. 1 and 2 of Whiting & Watson's Hebrew ^Bible, , or Psalter. 
22 Greek Testament, critically. Griesbach's ed. Cambridge, 1809. 
2", Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. Lnneld. 4to. . , n , - 
Z' Stew' h's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human mmd 5 2 vols. 8vo. 
26. Mensuration oi superficies-aed »Solid3, and Surveying. ? 
Publick declamations, forensick disputes once a montli— fhemes once a fortnight. 

N. B. Instead of 20, 21, those above twenty one years of age, and others, on^the written request of their 
parent or guardian, may attend to Mathematicks with the private Instructer, or Greek & Latin, or French. 

• An Introduction to the Elements of Algebra has been published at Cambridge, adapted to beginners, which contains those 

parts of algebra above enumerated, together with several chapters upon quadratick equations, intended for those, who may 

have leisure and inclination to extend their inquiries on this subject. An Elementary Treatise of Arithmetic*:, published at 

r sam ^P lace » comprehends those parts of anthmetick, which are required for admission, and will be used in examinations 

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SENIOR SOPHISTERS. 



Continued. 

Continued. 

Conic Sections and Spheric Geometry. 

Chemistry. 

Natural and Politick Law. Burlamaqui. 2 vols. 8vo. 

Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy. — Political Economy. 

Butler's Analogy of Religion to the constitution and course of nature. 8vo. 






Declamations, forensicks, and themes, the two first terms as in the junior year. 



Morning C Monday to Satur- 

exercise. £ day, inclusive. 

t, K Monday to 

Forenoon. J FHday f 



Table of private exercises. 
FRESHMEN. 
Greek and Latin. 



After- 
noon. 



3 Saturday. 

C Monday to 
£ Friday. 



C Algehra and Geometry. 
I English Grammar. 
C Declamation, History, 
l and Antiquities. 

1 Greek and Latin. 



,, C Monday to Sat- 

Morning. | urday / 

{Monday 
to 
Friday. 



Fore- 
noon. 



After- 
noon. 



Saturday. 

( Monday to 
£ Friday. 




Morning. JJJonday to Sat- 

{Monday, Tues- 
day, and Wednes- 
day. 
« Thursday. 

fMondaj 

(, Thursday. 



Af+pr- 

noon. 



SOPHOMORES. 



^ Greek and Latin. 

{Greek and Latin. 
Rhetorick. 
Mathematicks. 
{History, and Declama- 
tion or English compo- 
sition. 
( Geometry. 
I Logick & Intellect. Phil. 

JUNIORS. 

C Metaphysicks. 

I Natural Philosophy. 

{Theology. 
Hebrew, or substitute. 
Mathematicks. 
Forensicks or Themes. 
("Greek and Latin, 
J Moral Ph^ a J fc. 

) SENIORS. 



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Through the year. 

\ 1st and 2d terms, and 8 weeks of 3d term. 
[ 4 weeks of third term. 

Through the year. 
Through the year. 

Through the year. 

1st term. 
2d term. 
3d term. 

Through the year. 

1st and 2d terms. 
3d term. 



1st term. 

2d and 3d terms. 

1st term. 

2d term. 

3d term. 

Through the year 

1st and 2d terms. 

1st seven weeks of 3d term. 
ias N ve\ ks of 3d 1 



Fore 
noon. 



After- 
noon. 



5 Monday, Tuesday, 
I and Wednesday. 

Thursday. 
5 Monday to 
l Thursday 



1st and half 2d term. 

Half 2d and 3d term. 

1st term. 

2d term. 

1st and 2d terms. 

1st term. 

2d term to April. 



C Mathematicks & Chemistry. 
~l Morkl & Political Philosophy. 
C Astronomy. 
I Theology^ 

Forensicks^r Themes. 
C Moral & Political If ilosophy. 
~l Intellectual Philosophy. 

The Instructer of French and Spanish attends two days in the week, to give lessons to such members of 
each class as desire to learn either or both of those languages — and three days in the week on such as pursue 
French as a substitute for Hebrew. v 

N. B. The following is the rule of the Immediate Government in respect to candidates for advanced stand- 
ing, who may have pursued their studies in a different order from that which is observed in this Seminarv. 

" Whereas, in consequence of the different order of studies indifferent Colleges, candidates from other 
Colleges for advanced standing in this, while deficient in some branches, may yet have anticipated others ; so 
that on the whole they have learned an equal amount of the studies of this Seminary, with the class, for ad- 
mission to which they apply; in such cases the Immediate Government will receive the anticipated, for the 
deficient studies. Provided, however, no studies shall be received in compensation but such as form a part 
of the course at this College ; and that the candidate have so much knowledge in each department, as to be 
able to go on with the class. And the applicant shall be admitted only on condition that he afterwards make 
up such deficient studies, to the satisfaction of the Government upon examination ; and should he neg- 
lect so to do, his connexion with the University shall be forfeited. Candidates from such a distance, as ren- 
ders it difficult to obtain a knowledge of the exact order of studies at this College, shall be entitled to the 
privilege of the foregoing rule." 

Where persons have been led by circumstances to pursue their preparatory studies in approved text books 
other than those in use here, they will be examined accordingly. 

Lectures, distinct from private exercises, are delivered to the whole college, or to one or more classes, 
or a select number of undergraduates or graduates, by the several Professors ; — on Divinity, to the whole col- 
lege, part of every Lord's Day; — on Sacred C riticisin, Philology, Rhetorick & Oratory," and Physicks, Fri- 

tllfll P h'*™ 8 *"^ 1 * ' on _N"*"r n * Tieljojqn. Mori! ELiifu 
i] course of experimental Philosophy ; of Chemistry ; ami 

acourseof Anatomy, with preparation a limited n.nbe^ 

lectures of the Royall Professor of Law are ^^^"^^^^betWeen the first Wednesday in 

first of April and the middle of July. The course of Botany is twic a w ^ £ he regt of the Besides 

April and the seventh Friday before Co^mencemen^ and of ZooJ^y weewj Hi9tor / and Polity of 

these are the Dexter Lectures, occasionally given, on Bibhcal Cnt.Mm^thoje 

our churches, and those given to graduates and to stu nto into e learn W P ^ rf each ^ . 



day at 10 o'clock, a^J Saturrl.iv at 9 -" ' \Jd7-W Intel! 
sopliy,and Civil rolity at times w ue. appoint*. W^®* 
in a week first term of the senior year. 



cal sciences three times a year ; the Bowdoin prize dissertations read in the Chapel the third term, the collec- 
tion of theses to be printed at Commencement, the performances of Commencement day, and the speaking for 
Boylston prizes the day after. 

An attendance is permitted on such teachers of polite accomplishments, as are approved by the authority of 
the College. 

Devotional exercises, and the observance of the Lord's day. The members of the College at- 
tend prayers and the reading of the Scriptures in the Chapel every morning and evening, when the President, 
or in his absence, a Professor or Tutor officiates ; — and the religious services of the Christian Sabbath in the Uni- 
versity Chapel, which are conducted by the President, who preaches on one part of the day ; and bv the Hollis 
Professor of Divinity, who delivers a lecture on the other part. There is a University church of the Congrega- 
tional order, in which the ordinances are administered, and of which the officers last mentioned are the min- 
isters. 

Any undergraduate, who is above twenty one years of age, and has been brought up to attend publick 
worship at an Episcopal church, who proposes to attend statedly on that service in Cambridge, on signifying 
in writing the fact, and his desire to the President, may have leave so to attend. — Any one under age, who has 
been accustomed to worship at an Episcopal church, may have leave to attend statedly upon that service in 
Cambridge, provided it be the desire of his parent or guardian, signified in the manner afotesaid. 

The College charges are made in four quarter bills, of which the annual amount, to those not beneficiaries, 
is as follows. 

Steward - - <• - - - - - §10 

Board in commons 38 weeks of term time at about S3 per week - - 114 

Room rent ------- . . . -12 

Instruction two first years, §46 each year, third year 64, fourth year 74 — average 57-50 

Librarian, repairs, lecture rooms, and catalogues and contingences ... 8 

Wood - - - - ... _ . ... 16 

Books used in the classes - -__. . . .-15 



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232-50 
The room rent and wood are estimated upon the condition that two students live in a College room, and 
divide the expense. The rent of a room in a private house, near the College, is about fifty dollars a year ; and 
the price of a room and board in a family from four to six dollars a week. 

The foregoing charge for instruction is the whole expense under this head, and gives a student access to the 
lectures and recitations of the various professors and instructers, including French and Spanish, with the fol- 
lowing exceptions, viz. For the lectures of the Professor of natural history, on which attendance is voluntary, 
the fee is six dollars for the first course of Botany — for a second course four, and for Zoology nine dollars a 
year. The attendance on the private Instructer in Mathematicks, which is also optional, is a separate charge, 
at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents a quarter. 

The principal part of the other expenses of a student, such as clothes and allowance of spending money, 
so far as the reputation, morals, improvement and happiness of the pupil are concerned, can be estimated by the 
judicious. The authority and influence of those entrusted with the government of the seminary are anxious- 
ly exerted to prevent extravagance, and to discounteiiance the culpable and pernicious emulation in expense, 

Still much will depend in this respect 
pupil. To provide an additional securi- 

passed. _ 

"'"ends, are liable t! 
e some gentleman o! 
y the President, who 
Said I «hout whose permission 

CoIIctP Knishment." 



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which may sometimes appear in particular members of the society. 
on the course adopted by the parent, as well as on the charact 
ty, the following law, requiring the appointment of a\patro 
-^ . " Wh gi'.e.9.'?.sf!Jclprdg__L— ^_ tMftayt pinrcs^ Vr-aniiiigTtt'ie yv 
unnecessary and improper expenses, every student, not oil 
the College jETr of the vicinity, approved, and if the parent 
shall have charge of the funds, and superintend the expenses 
he shall not contract debts, on the penalty of dismission from 




Graduates of this and other Colleges of good character/are permitted to reside at the University for the 
purposes of study, and have access to the Library and Leytires. 

The Theological Seminary of the University was established by the Corporation and Overseers, assist- 
ed by the Society for promoting Theological Education at the University. — Graduates of any publick College 
or University, of suitable character, may resuje at the University as students in divinity. 

They are to be recommended to the Corporation by the President and Hollis Professor of Divinity ; and 
when their distance or other circumstancesirequire, to produce prdper testimonials. 

Applications are to be made in person or by letter to the President, or Professor of Divinity, or to the 
Registrar of the University. 

The pecuniary assistance, at the disposal of the Corporation and Trustees of the Society, for the benefit of 
theological students, is to be applied, first to those alone, whose characters, abilities, and improvements aftbrd 
the promise of usefulness ; and secondly, with a regard to what their circumstances make necessary to enable 
them to devote their whole time, or the greatest part of it, to their preparation for the ministry. 

It is understood that a faithful use of their advantages, and an exemplary conduct, are indispensable con- 
ditions of their receiving the aid of the Institution. 

Instructions and Kxercises — The theological students are to attend the religious services of the Col- 
lege Chapel, as well as to have devotional exercises with each other. 

They have access to the publick lectures of the several professors in Cambridge and in Boston, on the 
moral and physical sciences. 

The theological and ethical studies are divided into three annual courses, corresponding to three classes, 
and are superintended by gentlemen in different offices in the University, or members of the Corporation or 
Overseers, whose lectures and exercises the students are to attend, as follows : 

In the Evidences of Revelation, Christian Theology, and the interpretation of the Scriptures, by the Pres- 
ident and Hollis Professor of Divinity. 

The Hebrew and Greek Old Testament, by the Professor of Hebrew and the Greek Professor. 

Elements of Biblical Criticism, by the Dexter Lecturer. 

Composition of Sermons, and Pulpit Oratory, by the Boy^on Professor of Khetoiuck. 
Ciiurcies, uy -uic-neVrDK Holmes' J """ ~ '^ "f * Con&u,„.^.^r tire America, and New England 



The Pastoral Office, by the Rev.'w. E. Channing 
Intellectual Philosophy, by the Professor of Logi'ck t 
JNatural Religion and F.tK,vi.- c k„ +u~ a « 



and Civil PoliI^ *>?*»***> ^ the A "ord PuoVe 

soR A ofL A ;; SC,HOOL " eStabHshed at the Unive ^> ™d« the superintendence of the Univ 



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for the payment of quarterly dues, including the fee for instruction, which is not to exceed one hundred dol- 
lars annually. Those who desire it, will be furnished with commons on the same terms as other members of 
the University ; and, as far as possible, with lodging rooms. They will be allowed to attend, free of expense, 
the Lectures of the Royall Professor of Law, the private Lectures on Intellectual and on Moral and Political 
Philosophy design ed for graduates ; also the publick Lectures of the Professors generally, comprising the 
courses on Theology, Rhetorick and Oratory, Philology, natural and experimental Philosophy and Astronomy, 
Anatomy, Chemistry and Mineralogy, and other branches relatingto Physical science. The law students are 
to have access to the University library, on the same conditions as resident graduates, as well as to the law 
library, which shall be established. 

A Degree of Bachelor of Laws is instituted in the University, to be conferred on such students as shall 
have remained at least eighteen months at the University School, and passed the residue of their novitiate in 
a manner approved. Applications in writing or in person may be made to the Registrar of the University, 
or to the President, or to the Professor of Law. 

In the Medioal School, the lectures for Medical students are delivered at the Massachusetts Medical 
College of Harvard University in Boston; they commence annually on the third Wednesday in Nov. and 
continue for three months. Students, before attending the lectures, are to be matriculated by entering their 
names with the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. The degree of Doctor of Medicine is given twice a year, 
viz.. at the close of the Lectures, and at the publick Commencement in August. Candidates must pass a sat- 
isfactory private examination, and at a publick examination read and defend a dissertation. Before being ad- 
mitted to private examination, the candidate must have, attended two courses of lectures in the Medical Col- 
lege on each of the following subjects, viz. Anatomy and Surgery, Chemistry, and the Theory and Practice 
of Phvsick, — he must have employed three years in professional studies under the direction of a regular prac- 
titioner, including the time occupied in attending the lectures. If not educated at the University, he must sat- 
isfy the Faculty of his knowledge of Latin and experimental Philosophy. He shall be examined upon the fol- 
lowing branches, viz. Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Midwifery, Surgery and 
the Theory and Practice of Medicine. The students, during the lectures, have access to the Medical College 
Library of 4000 vols, and the Boylston Medical Library, Cambridge ; and they have opportunities of seeing 
practice. The fees for the lectures are as follows : for the course on Anatomy and Surgery g20, Chemistry 
and the Theory and Practice of Physick gl5 each, Materia Medica and Midwifery, each glO. The fee for 
the Degree of M. D. to one who has not taken a degree at any University or College is 820, to a Bachelor of 
Arts, SI 5. to a Master of Arts glO. 

The officers of the University, concerned in the instruction or immediate administration, are a President, 
one or more Professors in each of the following branches ; Divinity, Law, Theory and Practice of Medi- 
cine, Anatomy and Surgery, Chemistry and Mineralogy, the Greek language, Greek literature, Latin lan- 
guage and literature, French and Spanish languages and literature, Hebrew and other oriental languages, Nat- 
ural History, Mathematics and Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Intellectual Philosophy, Natural Religion, 
Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, Rhetorick and Oratory? Belies Lettres, the Rumford Professor on the ap- 
plication of the Mathematical and Physical sciences to the useful arts, a Lecturer on Sacred Criticism, on Ec- 
clesiastical history and polity, on Materia Medica, on Obstetricks, two Tutors in Mathematics and Natural 
Philosophy, a Librarian, Instructer in French and Spanish, Regent, Proctor9 and Registrar. 

JOHN THORNTON KIRKLAND, President. 








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